OK, here's a little selection of points and gripes you have raised, in no particular order:
1. The RSS feed is down. Yep... we have to unbreak that soon. My bad, I left it out in the rain and the code got all rusty.
2. More features. I agree, we (meaning the internet photo community in general) need to find the right recipe though. It seems that the majority of folks read real tree magazines for features and get their review information from the interweb. This is why a certain well-known digital photography review website has precisely four features on its site (that have not changed this century) and is still the leader in the field. We've concentrated on a core of post-processing features and back-pedalled on the 'taking pictures' features, to reflect what does and does not prove successful in this advice section. We are open to suggestions, though...
3. Less and more reviews. Hmm... it would be possible to deliver longer, more thorough reviews, but less of them. Currently, we deliver one review per week, alongisde some of the regular features, news etc. Were we to serve up two per month, but make them considerably more thorough (although still not exhaustive. Or exhausting to read), would this be a good thing, or a bad one?
4. Limits on gallery submissions. I'm opposed to this, although I admit it gets a pain to keep track of gallery happenings if someone is filing their life in 700 photos across 94 albums. There are times when you might not file a photo in a month; other times you might have a whole week's worth of holiday-taken landscapes to post up and by the time you've loaded up all of them, the holiday is long forgotten and we are in a new season.
5. Advice on the best DSLR... One of the surprise hits last year was a series of Xmas round-ups. This is a very good idea and one that needs doing for more than just DSLRs. It also needs doing on a regular basis, 'cos these things change frequently. Expect to see something remarkably like this, soon.
I'll side-step the whole manipulated vs. au naturel images thing that kicked off mid thread. Not that it's not of relevance, but simply because it's a topic best discussed on its own.
There are other issues, surrounding the ways of accessing images within an album, voting, forum features, etc, etc, that are a little out of our hands, but your requests do get passed up to our tech team. We use a relatively standard Magicalia forum and gallery system (those of you who post to BikeMagic, FishingMagic, GolfMagic, OutdoorsMagic or AV Review might see strong similarities in these sections) and the changes are often instigated globally. That means change can be slow in coming, but it comes.
Don't take this to mean this thread ends here, though. Keep 'em coming!
However, I have now come to the conclusion that I do not want to learn the techno 'stuff ' as I am quite happy to point and shoot. If this was to become a hobby of mine then I would learn. However, at the moment I am quite comfortable with admiring other peoples' pics. No matter what they do to them. Keep them coming I love them.
